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Continue ReadingNASA’s newest Mars rover nabbed a significant extraterrestrial sighting when an onboard camera …
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Continue ReadingOn Oct. 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. See how …
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Continue ReadingThe Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, has now traveled 146 million miles (235 million …
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Continue ReadingAstronomers using a telescope in Mexico have found two more exoplanets – a super-Earth and a …
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Continue ReadingEarlier this month, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez split the 2020 physics Nobel …
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Continue ReadingSpaceX successfully launched its latest fleet of Starlink internet satellites into orbit Saturday …
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Continue ReadingTwo more comets – 88P Howell and M3 ATLAS – are worth scouting the sky for into November 2020. If …
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Continue ReadingNASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner are back on Earth. …
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Continue ReadingNASA astronaut Christina Koch reflected on her participation in the first all-woman spacewalk ahead …
Continue ReadingTwo small asteroids will zip by Earth today (Oct. 19) at a range that’s closer than the moon, …
Continue ReadingNASA will touch a space rock tomorrow in a milestone event for what the agency considers a crucial …
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Continue ReadingAs soon as he saw the data, Paul Chodas knew something was strange about the near-Earth object that …
Continue ReadingGianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the asteroid last night. …
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Continue ReadingSpaceX successfully launched a full stack of Starlink internet satellites into today (Oct. 18) and …
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